Musicians, soccer players or actresses have been arrested in Iran for supporting the protests that are shaking the country, but this has not prevented other public figures from risking it by raising their voices in favor of the mobilizations in which more freedom is demanded.
Also without raising their voices, as the Iranian soccer players did yesterday when they did not sing their country’s anthem before the match of the Qatar World Cup 2022 versus Englandwhich they lost 6-2.
The gesture has been considered as a protest due to the harshness with which the Iranian government is repressing the mobilizations that began in mid-September due to the death of Mahsa Aminiafter being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil properly.
The protests began due to the death of the 22-year-old Kurdish girl, but they have evolved and now the protesters, especially young people, call for the end of the Islamic Republic founded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979.
Numerous celebrities or celebrities have shown their support for the demonstrations in which they shout “woman, life, freedom”, to the discontent of the authorities who fear their ability to influence, amplify messages or mobilize the population.
FOOTBALL PLAYERS
Among those famous footballers stand out, who have been discovered as some unexpected “rebels”.
His involvement dates back to the beginning of the protests, as seen during the Iran-Senegal match on September 27, when Iranian players listened to the anthem wearing black jackets. covering the National emblem.
One of the latest cases was that of former player Ali Daei, who announced that he had declined an invitation to go to Qatar as a show of solidarity with families who have lost loved ones.
Faced with this situation, the Iranian Football Federation warned before the World Cup that would punish players who make gestures of a political naturewhich did not prevent the footballers from singing the anthem.
The consequences of that act remain to be seen and in principle we will have to wait for his return to Iran.
That was the case of the climber Elnaz Rekabi, who competed in Seoul without a veil, perhaps the most notorious case of support by an athlete for the protests.
The climber later assured that the lack of the veil was due to an oversight, but this did not prevent hundreds of people from receiving her at the Tehran airport shouting “champion”.
CULTURE
But not only the footballers have supported the mobilizations in which they have killed at least 342 peopleaccording to the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
One day before the silence of the soccer players of the national team, the actresses Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi were arrested for removing their veils, which has cost them the accusation of “collusion with the intention of acting against national security” and “propaganda against the state”.
Thousands of women have stopped wearing the headscarf on the streets of Tehran in the last two months, in a gesture of defiance unheard of and unthinkable against the Islamic Republic just a few weeks ago.
But Ghaziani and Riahi are two respected public figures who, by posing uncovered, give visibility to the protests.
Ghaziani posted a video on Instagram in which she appears defiantly without a veil and staring at the camera before turning around, showing her long hair and pulling back into a ponytail, a day after denouncing state repression.
The two actresses join the more than 2,000 people accused of various crimes for their participation in the protests, six of whom have been sentenced to death so far.
Iranian rapper Tomaj Salehi is also behind bars, after being arrested at the end of October for his verses against the clerics who run the country.
For his part, the singer Shervin Hajipour, author of the song “Baraye” (Para), composed with tweets published by Iranians about the death of Amini, is out on bail and faces justice for posting it on Instagram.
Filmmakers, documentary filmmakers, artists and some 60 journalists, among others, have also been detained for their support of the protests.
They are just some of the 15,000 arrested, the vast majority anonymous citizens, from the beginning of some mobilizations of which the Government accuses the United States and Israel.
(with information from EFE)
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Source-www.infobae.com